It was a true Mad Hatter's tea party as Gladstone's Bachelor of Learning Management students and a handful of willing children boarded CQUniversity's Harbour Festival Parade float this week.

The float's design was a credit to the students' creativity, the leadership of Kyle Stein and the imagination of Early Childhood Lecturer Lyn Hughes, who was able to use netting in some amazing ways.

CQUniversity Executive Dean Professor Graham Pegg is fired up about expanding his faculty's range of sciences, engineering and health programs, particularly across a footprint including the Bundaberg, Gladstone, Mackay, Noosa and Rockhampton regions..

CQUniversity is spending $9 million to complete a refurbishment of two major engineering buildings on Rockhampton Campus, which missed out on being modernised during previous capital works projects..

CQUniversity is planning to construct a new clinic at Rockhampton Campus as part of a $12 million investment in new Allied Health programs in 2012..

Leading domestic violence researcher, Canada's Professor Jane Ursel will present a FREE seminar on Women Seeking Safety: Victim's perspectives on justice and social service system responses to domestic violence.

This Queensland Centre for Domestic & Family Violence Research event will be staged at CQUniversity Mackay from 1pm-2pm on Friday, April 29, and video-linked to university campuses in Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Brisbane, Emerald, Cairns and Townsville.

CQUniversity lecturer and wastewater expert Ben Kele spoke with ABC's Georgia Stynes recently in a candid interview about his sometime smelly occupation that has huge benefits to our lives. You can hear the interview below.

CQUniversity's Widening Participation team recently held a ‘What's My Future?' event at Eidsvold State School, for students in Years 7-12.

Eidsvold State School Principal, Norah Murphy, was pleased with the program and is looking forward to developing a good partnership with the Widening Participation team.

CQUniversity is developing exciting new teaching programs in the developing field of forensic accident investigation. These are planned to be offered at degree through to masters and PhD levels and will start being rolled out in 2012.

Within the Central Queensland region, barramundi have a major environmental and economical value to commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries.

The La Nina cycle wet season of 2010/11 in the Central Queensland region has greatly contributed to increased river flows, causing minor to major flooding in the region's waterways.